Robert Hannigan
Ex-director of GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence and Cyber Security agency at Imperial College London

Biography
Imperial College London
Robert Hannigan was Director of GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence and cyber security agency, from 2014-17 and recently retired from Government after 20 years in national security roles, including Prime Minister’s Security Adviser. He is Executive Chairman (Europe) of BlueVoyant, the global cyber security services company, and a Senior Adviser to McKinsey & Co.
Robert established the UK National Cyber Security Centre as part of GCHQ in 2016, and was responsible for the UK’s first cyber strategy in 2009.
He is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center, Harvard, and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, London.
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